Category: Intersectionality
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Tacoma
Developer: FullbrightPublisher: FullbrightRelease Year: 2017Platform: Linux, Mac, PS4, WIN, Xbox OneGenre: AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Narrative Themes, Mechanics, Intersectionality Set abroad a high-tech space station, Tacoma, in 2088, you are tasked to recover the station’s AI and find out why the station was abandoned by the crew. interviews and other media scholarship…
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Sunset
Developer: Tale of TalesPublisher: Tale of TalesRelease Year: 2015Platform: Linux, Mac, WINGenre: AdventureTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Politics/Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Intersectionality You play as Angela, an African-American housekeeper, who is working for the wealthy and politically connected Gabriel Ortega in the a fictional country of Anchuria. Ultimately you must make decisions about…
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Spider Man: Miles Morales
Developer: Insomniac Games, Nixxes SoftwarePublisher: Insomniac GamesRelease Year: 2020, 2022 (WIN)Platform: PS4, PS5, WINGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Black Cultural Traditions, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Narrative Themes, Politics/Ideology/History, Black NPCs, Intersectionality Set in Harlem this game focuses on Miles Morales’ struggles to balance his life as a teenager and his duties as the second Spider-Man,…
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SEASON: A Letter to the Future
Developer: Scavengers StudioPublisher: Scavengers StudioRelease Year: 2023Platform: PS4, PS5, WINGenre: Adventure Taxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Black NPCs, Intersectionality Estelle leaves her isolated home for the first time to create a record of the world for the next generation before a mysterious cataclysm wipes everything away. interviews and other media scholarship Return…
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Remember Me
Developer: Don’t NodPublisher: CapcomRelease Year: 2013Platform: PS3, WIN, Xbox OneGenre: Action Adventure Taxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Black NPCs, Intersectionality Set in 2084, in Neo-Paris, a small group of rebels, Errorists, attempt to bring down Memorize, a corporation that invented a brain implant that enables 99% of the population to upload and share memories with people…
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Insecure: The Come Up Game
Developer: Glow Up GamesPublisher: Glow Up GamesRelease Year: 2021Platform: Android, iOSGenre: Simulation, RPGTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Black NPC, Narrative Themes, Black Cultural Traditions, Intersectionality, Fandom/Community/Reception In Insecure you navigate adulthood with a core group of friends and craft rhymes to help make decisions or to battle friends for clout. interviews and other media scholarship…
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Hair Nah…
Developer: Momo PixelPublisher: Momo PixelRelease Year: 2017Platform: Browser BasedGenre: SimulationTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Black Cultural Traditions, Politics/ Ideology/History, Black NPCs, Narrative Themes, Intersectionality, Fandom/Community/Reception Showcasing one of the stresses that black women face, it is a response to the action of touching a Black woman’s hair without permission. You must deflect a steady stream…
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Dot’s Home
Developers: Weathered Sweater, Aerial_Knight, Titan ARX InteractivePublisher: Rise-Home StoriesRelease Year: 2021Platform: Android, iOS, Mac, WINGenre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Development, Black Cultural Traditions, Politics/Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Playable Black Characters, Black NPCs, Intersectionality, Mechanics Follow a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother’s beloved home as she travels through time to relive key moments…
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DON’T GIVE UP: A Cynical Tale
Developer: Tristan BaronaPublisher: Taco Pizza Cat GamesRelease Year: 2019Platform: Switch, WINGenre: RPGTaxonomy: Development, Narrative Themes, Playable Black Characters, Intersectionality Trying to find success in life, a mentally ill game developer becomes wrapped up in the manifestations of his own inner demons and has to face the realities of social interaction and personal growth. interviews and…
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Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan
Developer: Kiro’o GamesPublisher: Kiro’o Games, Dear Villagers, Plug In DigitalRelease Year: 2016Platform: WINGenre: RPGTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Black NPCs, Black Cultural Traditions, Narrative Themes, Intersectionality, Politics/Ideology/History, Mechanics Set in a 2D setting, in Auriona, based upon the cultures of Africa, you play as Enzo Kori-Odan, the prince of Zama, who is betrayed by his…